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    The “Drug War” along the border of Mexico and the United States is one of the longest coordinated engagements of law enforcement (who have accepted the aid of the Mexican military) in both countries’ history (Winslow, 2015). The history of this unofficial war is extraordinarily complicated; rife with both political and criminal players, violence, corruption, bad policy, and controversy. Its importance to America and Mexico cannot be underestimated, especially in its role in legislation, law enforcement

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    From the middle of the twentieth century till the 1980 's the federal government gave a substantial amount of money to local governments to use on local programs with few to no restrictions. However, starting in the mid-eighties this changed. The federal government began giving less money with more demands. During the Reagan administration the amount of funding was cut using the justification of shrinking a bloated federal government. This continued through George H.W. Bush. Bill Clinton and George

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    organization that maintains control over a large portion of the central and southern part of the country. Al Shabaab has ties to Al Qaeda (AQ) with the main goal of installing a fundamentalist Islamist government in Somalia and is conducting an insurgency against both the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union

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    the federal budget and the state and local budgets is the issue of a monetary deficit, in which expenditures in the budget exceeds revenues that were estimated. State and local governments are required to balance their budgets. The federal government is allowed to borrow money to meet its obligations and have a deficit. The federal government collects the most tax revenue, but state and local governments have a greater range of revenue options for funding their budgets. The federal government relies

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    Revenue allocation formulae: The current revenue allocation formulae is 52.68%, 26.72% and 20.60%.for the F.G, States and L.Gs respectively | FEDERAL GOVT. | STATE GOVT. | LOCAL GOVT. | | | | | |52.68% |26.72%

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    macroeconomic management of the economy. This debate has its foundations in the history and evolution of the Nigerian federation. “Revenue allocation or the statutory distribution of revenue from the Federation Account among the different levels of government has been one of the most contentious and controversial issues in the nation’s political life. So contentious has the matter been that none of the formulae evolved at various times by a commission or by decree under different regimes since 1964 has

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    Nepal, official name the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a landlocked country located between China in the north and India laying west, east and south of them. The Federal Democratic Republic Kingdom of Nepal is situated in the central part of the Himalayan arc and is tectonically sand witched between Tibet in the north and India in the south. It is one of the least developed countries as well in south Asia. Though Nepal never became a colony of any power and defeated the Britain, Tibet and

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    expose the power structures and bureaucratic inefficiencies that exacerbate the problems (Brooks, 2005).The evident failures of the government in the emergency preparedness and response had heightened awareness and prompted investigation.The aftermath of the storm had made clear that the US is facing fundamental inadequacies and disparities at the local, state, and federal levels. It simply reminded us that there are gross functional inefficiencies in the American political framework. If devastating

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    but the basic objective of all the government to provide batter and more efficient administration to all section of the population so that there hopes and aspiration are met.  Local Government: Local Government is not a government system. It is merely public administration system that exists at the lowest level of the or country. Local government or local bodies acts according to the legislation and direction of the higher level of government or central government. Different countries have different

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    Smith, Jr., 2011 state that, The 50 states and eighty-seven local governments within the United States service more than 17 million people almost six times the federal government civilian workers and spend more than 1.8 trillion every twelve months. Even though the federal government accounts for over half of all government expenses, local and state government spend more for nondefense resolutions than does the federal government. Revenues and Expenditures Commercial dictionary 2014, describes revenue

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